St Bernardine of Siena, priest Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [566] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10, 11 (#721.3); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).
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Outside the Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg [i.e. all non-SACBC territories]
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
Feast
Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. [In the Universal Calendar, this feast is celebrated on the Thursday after Pentecost, except for SACBC territories which will celebrate it next Thursday. In SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above, or the optional Memorial below can be used.]
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Jer 31:31-34 or Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110 (109):1b-e, 2, 3 (â„Ÿ. 4b); Mark 14:22-25. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Jubilee:
Ruby Jubilee of P. Lawrence DAKA who celebrates 40 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1521
Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French.
1521
St. Ignatius was seriously wounded while defending the Castle of Pamplona against the French.
1622
The death of Pedro Paez, S.J., a Spanish missionary to Ethiopia, the second apostle of Ethiopia. He reached Ethiopia in 1603 after 15 years of journey because en route he was enslaved by Turkish pirates for 7 years. He was the first European to see the source of the blue Nile, he wrote a history of Ethiopia and learned several languages.
1823
Saint Louis University (St. Louis College) is founded.
1961
In a letter dated 20 May, Fr. Swain, Vicar-General formally approved the Institute of Jesuit Sources. The plan was launched unofficially the previous year when Fr. Janssens gave Fr. Ganss permission to start work on an English version of the Constitutions.
1968
J. Franklin (Buck) Ewing, S.J. dies anthropologist, missiologist.
1973
The Society of Jesus allowed in Switzerland after a Referendum.
1974
Jean Cardinal Danielou, SJ, dies in Paris, engaged in ministry.
